Fertility Treatment Issues

There are, obviously, no guarantees with any form of fertility treatment, certainly no guarantees for a successful pregnancy. Fertility specialists and clinics offer the hope of conceiving a child through any one of many methods, some proven, some experimental.

People who yearn for a child happily sign up for that hope and are doing so in record numbers . . . because it’s worth it. It’s worth the expense (that’s seldom covered by health insurance); it’s worth the stress, the anxiety, and the sometimes exhausting and repetitious procedures.

Even without a guarantee of success.

There are, however, guarantees in the process: that you will receive the best of care, paperwork will be handled to exacting standards, procedures will be explained in full – including the risks – and carried out under the same standards as any other medical treatment.

In short, fertility specialists and clinics are held to the same standards of medical care as any other medical specialty and institution. Fertility patients are owed the same duty of care as every patient undergoing any type of treatment, undergoing any type of procedure.

Like any medical treatment or procedure, mistakes can be made. Mistakes in paperwork that result in misdiagnosis or worse; mistakes in method of treatment;, mistakes with treatment and/or drugs; mistakes during and after procedures.

Many of those mistakes may have lasting consequences.

When mistakes occur, remedies may be found through the courts. LGM Injury Law has recently seen an increase in cases arising from errors that occurred in the course of fertility treatment.

Some of those cases involved one or more of the following:

Miscarriage

Birth defect

Misdiagnosis resulting in the wrong treatment course

Lost embryos

Lost sperm samples

Damaged frozen eggs

Destroyed samples

Fertilization with the wrong samples

Spoiled specimens

Improper use of sperm including use without consent

Implantation mix ups

Sexual assault

Medication errors

Physical injury during a procedure

This is hardly an exhaustive list of the negligence and medical malpractice that can arise during infertility treatment.

If you or a loved one have suffered harm while undergoing fertility treatment, please call us as soon as possible for a no-cost consultation. We will explore what happened, outline the possible remedies and give you a realistic appraisal of your chances for financial compensation.